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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
Protection to a Manufacturer as Liquor
to a Drunkard.

Editor Of The Record:
A protective tariff is to manu-
facturer like liquor to drunkard.
1t stimulates the manufacturer I'M
duly and unnaturally, and soon be-
comes indispensable. Give me
liquor or I'll die" cries the drunk
ard" "Give me protective tariff
or cannot exist" says the manu-
facturer. Manufacturers at first
asked for high tariff for only q
few wears until their factories got
fairly started. Now, however, they
tell US that a high tariffs absolute
ly necessary, as hundreds of mill
ions of dollars worth of property
will be sacrificed. At the end of
fifty more years what will they say?
BY that time they will be so wealthy
and powerful that they will not ask
for protection at all, but they will
say: "We intend to have just as
much protection as we DESIRE" and
will insolently ask farmers and
workingmen: What are you going
to do about it p Even now they
are so wealthy and powerful that
they are able to buy up Representa-
tives and Senators by the score, and
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
Which /?

There is not a human being who
cannot live without whiskey and to
bacco. They are unnecessaries-
Injuries. On the contrary, men,
women and children must be fed,
clothed, housed and warmed. These
are necessities to living.
The so-called protectionists want
free whisky and cheap tobacco in
order that they may keep up the
prices of necessaries like clothing.
The revenue reformers wish to
retain the tax on whisky and to-
bacco, knowing that only those who
use them pay the taxes upon them.
The tariff dispute in nutshell
is:-Whether to have cheap whisky
or cheap necessaries
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
THE TEST OF RE.
PUBLICANISM.

The Republican party is now in
the hands of managers who wish to
make protection the single issue.
When they have succeeded in max
ing belief in protection the only
test of Republicanism, what will be-
come of the Republicans who be-
lieve in tariff reform President
Garfield was q member OF the Cob
den Club. He was but one Of the
many Republicans who have oppos
ed the principle of the protective
tariff. 1t is fact that in the North
many of the most prominent friends
of tariff reform have been Republi
cans. In the North, also, the great
majority of the educated people,
from college professors to men who
have taught themselves, look upon
the high protective tariff with sus-
picion, if they do not actually OPP
pose it. And yet it has been the
boast of the Republican party that
intelligent people, college professors
and all, are generally Republicans.
Will the Republican tariff re-
formers be converted, or will they
be driven out Of the party ? And
if they are driven out of the party
who will take their places. The
calculation appears to be that when
protection is made the issue the old
Southern Wings will become Repub-
licans and break the solid South
1t is in the North that the future is
most predetermined. If the North
ern tariff reformers are compelled tt
become Democrats will the recruits
gained from the Democracy by The
same token be equivalent in mum
Der and intelligence ?-Kinaeapolt'
-NeWS.
The old Wing party never woulC
countenance our present tariff: were
Clay or Webster alive to day the'
would be with Beck and Hewitt.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT, SEPTEMBER 10, 1887.

otherwise exert a malign influence
over the Government. One also
cannot help comparing a manufac-
turer who depends upon protective
tariff to house built upon founda
ton of sand. 1t is liable to fall at
any time. Only those manufac
lures are built upon firm fcunda
tion which are independent Of tar
if. It's clear to my mind that such
manufactures only should ever be
established. The sole question that
farmers and workingmen should ask
themselves is this: Shall the great
majority ofthe citizens OF the United
States sacrifice their interests in or
der that q few citizens may become
enormously wealthy? That is the
protective tariff question in nut
shell. w. II. BENSON.
Philadelphia, Sept. 10.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
Eye-Opener for Laboring Men.

Those laboring people who have
been told so often that a tariff was
for their protection are becoming
suspicious and wondering why it is
that the mine and the factory bosses,
who are expressing them in every
other respect, should feel such
lively interest in their welfare and
profess such love for them in this
particular instance. A lit
tie cool reflection and a careful
weighing of all the facts by the vo-
tiers of the nation would put au end
to the reign of tariff monopoly and
kindred sophistries.-Fort WOrth
(Ter. J Gazette.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16

At Terra Alta. 10 miles west of
Oakland, the descent OF the Gran
berry grade commences, and for ten
miles the B. d o. runs down the
mountain side at grade of 115
feet to the mile One can scarcely
look from the car window down
into the apparent bottomless gulch
es without a shudder, thinking what
il the air brake should fail as the
train rushes down the incline
When the train No. AZ, with five ex-
press cars and one car loaded with
Scotch immigrants, started down
this grade at noon on the 9th the
engineer discovered that the air
brake would not work. and that he
had lost control OF his train. Will
liam Paxton, the engineer, stood to
his post and the speed increased
every moment. 1t was running so
miles an hour. When two miles
from the foot Of the grade. while
rounding sharp curve, the tender
and two express cars jumped the
track and plunged down a ravine
100 feet deep. A. w. Cooper, Of
Keyser, a brakeman, went down
with his cars and was instantly
killed. The immigrant coach was
turned over on its side, but no one
in it was injured. 1t is said that
the brake apparatus was known by
the train hands 10 be out Of order.
At Oakland the gum air hose, it is
said, was leaking and one Of the
brakeman endeayored to repair it,
Paxton it is said was heard to say,
IL am afraid to 60 down the grade
with that hose" Nevertheless the
descent was attempted. 1t is re-
ported that one Of the brakeman
was not at his post while the train
was running away. The brakeman
who was at his post lost his life.
If the money railroads spend in
politics were applied to legitimate
purposes, these accidents would not
occur.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16

In this connection it is instruct
i've to remember that all the rail
roads in the State united to defeat
the bill, offered at Charleston last
winter, to apply the provisions of
the interstate Commerce Act to our
local traffic. That bill could not
possibly injuriOusly affect any legit-
innate undertaking by railroads
no one has ever attempted to sug-
gest an objection to any provision
in it. Unless the railroad mana
gers were resorting to secret and il
legal practices, they would not have
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16

When the constitutional conven-
tion of Pennsylvania met. and they
came to consider the proper powers
of railroads, and the limitations nee.
essary to be placed upon them for
the public protection, it was made
the fundamental law that "no in
corporated company doing the bust
ness of n common carrier shall di-
rectly or indirectly prosecute or en-
gage in mining or manufacturing N
ticles for transportation over its
road; nor shall such company, di
rectly or indirectly, engage in any
other business than that OF com
mon carrier, or hold or acquire lands,
freehold or leasehold, directly or in
directly, except such as shall be nee
essary for carrying on its business.
There was, Of course, a struggle in
the convention before these and other
safeguards were thrown around the
public, for there were corporation
lawyers in abundance present and
ready to prove that the public well
fare depended upon allowing the
railroads Of the State to run every
thing. from a hotel TO n locomotive,
but it was not n Legislature com
posed of purchaseable material, but
the best representatives Of the pco
pie, acting in their sovereign capac-
ity, and when Black and Meredith,
Buckalew, Cochran and others thun-
dered along the line of corporate
power and ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and the
public peril if they were left unchain-
ed for the future, they swept the con
vention like n whirlwind, and inter
posed the mighty barrier Of consti-
tutional provision between the rail
roads and the people for all time
RdcOrd.
IL should be added that ever since
her new constitution the railroad
managers have succeeded in exclud-
from the Pa. Legislature men like
Black, Meredith, Buckalew and
Cochran.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16

''The taxes to be first RENTED are
those which prevent or hinder the
sale of our surplus products in for
eign markets. x The in
come of all the wage-earners in the
United States can be at once en-
larged effectively, certainly, perma-
nently, by reducing the cost to them
of the great necessities oflife. Our
war tariff taxes increase peedlessly
the cost of clothing, shelter, food to
every family. Every wage earner's
expense for the clothing of himself
and his family is nearly doubled, at
least in the Northern, Middle and
Western States, by taxation which
can now be RENTED, yet leave the
Treasury a sufficient revenue. -
Daniel Manning.
Let the democratic party place
itself boldly on the proposition that
the tariff-taX shall be taken off of
every article, the cost of which is
enhanced by combination among
manufacturers. Let the watchword
be "no tariff where there is Il pool to
keep up prices"
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
NOT FOOL--ONLY A PROTECT
IONIST.
Gin. Enquirer.

Correspondence I'm. Enquirer.
| witnessed an amusing episode
or the station platform at Niles the
other evening while waiting for
train. A dozen citizens, the m ,st
of them apparently workmgmen
from the mills, were standing
around, when Yankee drummer
put in an appearance and said
81 should like to know if there
are any Jim Blaine men around
here =
Certainly we're all for jim
Blaine y came back in a chorus.
Glad to hear it. You are the
kind of boys ? like to meet" said
the drummer, and he shook hands
with them.
"We are for Blaine of Maine and
projections" said one, and then
turning to q stranger, who seemed
absorbed in his cigar, he inquired ::
Aren't you Tor Blaine and pro
lection p
Il suppose so. Protection in
sures everybody high wages and
plenty of money, doesn't it ?"
That's it,"
"Then I'm for protection, and
d-n a man who says it doesn't
make us all rich, happy and con
tented"
Now you're talking" said half a
dozen.
You never have any strikes here,
do You p
"Oh, yes very frequently. One
of our biggest mills is closed now
on account Of the coke strike"
"Strikes are all wrong"
Not much; they are all right"
"But what makes you strike =
Because they try to put us on
starvation wages"
"Who -
"The mill owners"
"But they can't do that"
"Why can't they ?"
Because protection won't let
them"
"The mischief it won't. You
work in the mills awhile and you'll
find out differently. If all the man
utacturing establishments in this
country were running to their full
capacity for one year it would take
three years to consume the product.
AS soon as a big stock is made up
they begin to grind down our wages,
we have to strike to prevent being
put at the starvation point"
'You must be mistaken" said the
cynic.
"How mistaken +? Don't / know
what my own experience is? Tell
me how / am mistaken p
why: wages are high-high all
time"
lyon must be crazy.
perhaps | am, but then / am a
thorough protectionist and believe
in it. Now, doesn't the protective
tariff secure the best wages for the
workingman y
Eyes"
swell, then, l must be right
when tell you that wages are good
good all the time, and there can't
be anything else while the protect
ion lasts ?"
do you know what l think you
are ?
Il do not" responded the cynical
stranger.
you arc a I'D fool"
"Oh, no I'm a protectionistw
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
PROHIBITION AND THE CHURCH.

Several ministers request US to repub-
from the Princeton RerieW for July an
article by the Rev. Sanford III. Cobb, dis
cussing the expediency and propriety of
Church action in behalf of prohibition.
His paper is 5000 words and too long for
newspaper, but to meet the pressing
demand we endeavor to reproduce the
thoughts Of this profound thinker and
eminent divine, although to do So will
occupy for several issues the space allot-
ted to this subject.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
$4,000 MINERS STRIKE.

$4,000 mine employees Of the lie
high region refuse to work until the
operators consent to arbitration or
WELD to the demands made. 10000
miners in Shamokin, Columbia and
Dauphin districts also struck this
evening.
Dispatches to Phil. Record of last Sund.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16

A comparative statement of the
number of L. S. licenses issued to
retail liquor dealers in certain coun-
ties for the years 1881 ard 1886.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
Church Statistics.

We compile the following from the
Journal of the Annual Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the di-
Geese of w. Va.
This character OF information is ofpe-
culiar interest and we wish TO obtain the
s,,,;s+;os for tho other denominations.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16

So successful measure Of legis-
lation was the Democratic tariff OF
1916" that. after an experiment Of
eleven years, q Republican House
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-09-16
opposed such 4 law.

Does itnot strike thoughtful men
as a significant fact that newspapers
are silent upon these subjects.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
A Phenomenal Crazy Quilt.

Miss Ella Fike, of Warrensburg, Mo-,
has just completed a crazy quilt which
she has spent over four years in making.
1t is two yards in width and two and
three quarter yards long, and is bordered
with heavy by-colored plush and lined
with gold-colored surah silk, and is beau
tiful in the extreme The feature of the
quilt is that it consists entirely of silk,
satin, velvet and plush scraps from
famous and noted persons, such as Presi-
dents and their wives, mostly al. of
President Arthur's Cabinet and their
family, most of President Cleveland's
Cabinet, officials and families of the
United States Supreme Court, members
and families of diplomatic corps, United
States Senators and Representatives and
their wives, Governors and families OF
different States, actors and actresses and
other noted persons. Every piece in the
quilt has history. The quilt comprises
nine large blocks, one of which contains
pieces from the dresses and cravats OF
members of her graduating classes and
her teachers. The kind of work which
she has decorated it with arc flat and
raised wool and silk chenille and arasene,
tinsel, embroidery, brush painting, Ken
sington embroidery in silks and crcwcls,
braiding, beading, applique, etching,
transfer, cross-stitch, dihcrent designs IN
fans, palettes, plaques and bugs of silk,
satin, velvet and plush. The quilt con-
tains pieces of ribbon from two Of Mrs.
Clevcland's wedding bonnets.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
A Great Amsterdam Industry.

One of the great industries of Amster-
dam (Holland) is the cutting and polish
ing of diamonds; and nearly all the finest
diamonds in the word are taken there to
be cut into shape. We will make visit
to one of the principal diamond establish
ments, and when we get there think we
shall be surprised to find a great factory,
four or five stories high, steam engine
in the basement, and fy-wheels ana
leathern bands and all sorts of whirring
machinery in the different stories. On
the very top floor the diamonds are fin
ished and polished, and here we see
skillful workmen sitting before rapidly
revolving disks of steel, against which
the diamonds are pressed and polished.
1t requires great skill, time and patience
before one of these valuable gems is got
into that shape in which it will best
shine, sparkle and show its purity.
Nearly half the diamonds produced n
the world, the best of which come from
Brazil are sent to this factory to be cut
and polished. Here the great Koh.i-noor
was cut, and we are shown models OF
that and of other famous diamonds that
were cut in these rooms.-St. Nicholas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
"Crooks" and Typewrlters.

Crime keeps pace with science, says a
writer in the St. Louis Globe- Democrat,
and no sooner is an improvement in the
arts or mechanics announced than the
crooked element instantly adopts it.
Take the simple case of the typewriter;
it is an innocent looking instrument, yet
it is the means of battling the police and
other Investigators. Handwriting for
merly was a great aid to detectives in
tracing up correspondents, and black
mailers and others using threatening let
tcrs appre lated that as well as any one.
They would write back-handed or try. to
disguise their chirography. The writing
experts, however, penetrated the dis,
gui<e by following the individual!
pccularities that can never be covered
up in the characters. Now, however,
writer's of anonymous letters use the type
writer, and if you are curious to know
the authority you will not be satisfied,
for there is very little Satisfaction Tor
any one who tries to trace up the author
of such a document. 1t is even more dlt-
fcult than finding the printer of clrcu'
lar, for where there is one printing shop
there are hundred typcwritcrs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02

evening, happy if they come out of their
adventure with whole skin. Many Of
them own their own machines, but q
large number of them patronize the icy.
clcries." Of course those who travel in
the evening are always accompanied by
gentlemen. But their escorts cannot
prevent them from taking tumble now
and then-sometimes with serions re-
suits.
met party of two women and two
men coming down Fifteenth street on
Monday night about midnight, who, /
am certain, must have been delayed by
an accident. Accidents will happen,
you know, especially on dark nights.
And it is nightly sight to see young
man pushing a tired out women up a
hilly street, or picking her out OF the
grasp of the upset machine. In one case
of the latter sort recently the woman's
dress caught in one of the wheels, and
when the machine turned over on top of
her, her dress had to be cut away with a
penknife. Nevertheless, they all en-
ioyed it, good and bad riders alike.
The steady work required is delightful
exercise, and the feeling of power and
comfort combined is very grateful.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
The Samoan Islanders.

The coral-rcefed Samoan Islands, in
the South Pacific Ocean, in which Ger
many, England and the United States
have been for som. time past CONNER.
cially interested, are now in possession OF
the Germans, who have deposed King
Malictoa, carried him off to New Guinea,
and put rival in his place. The natives
are of dark copper color, and are usu-
ally nude from the waste upward. The
better sort of Samoan houses are rooted
with palm-trces. Doors are seldom used,
a mat is suspended in the doorway at
night, so dogs and fowls walk in and out
without hindrance. Boiled plantains,
wild fruit and bananas, with an oc,
casional pig or fowl, form the chief food
of the natives. For clothing, the paIain,
wrapped round the waist and tucked in
at the top, is universally worn. Kava,
the favorite native drink, which many
Europeans also get fond of, is made
from the root of a shrub, dried or pounded.
-FLanE Leslie's.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
THE PENSIONERS

When berries are ripe, what breezes pass
BY the hillside slope of tangled grass,
AS under the warmth of shower and sun
Flavor and fragrance melt in one!
Tho treasure is hidden. the leaf is spread
To mock the eye with CLEAN of red,
And,the ant that dwells by the pasture stone
Tastes the sweets of the hour alone.
When cherries are ripe how fair SKY
Arches the hills of hot July,
While over the land joyful lay
Sounds the praise of the dawning day!
The reapers turn from the weighted sheaves
To rifle the depth OF dazzling leaves,
And the farthest flush in the telltale East
Calls the robins to share the feast
Whom apples are ripe the fields are bare
And the frost disSolves in the kindling air,
And murmur of laughter comes and goes
From the rustling length of the orchard rows
The turf is streaked with n crimson hue,
And the loaded cart is rumbling through,
And the dream of a glancing hearth is dear
When app.es are ripe, in the waning year.
Dora Reai Goodule, in Independent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
An Experiment,

John T. Hemphill, who lives near
Morgan's Bayou, in Arkansaw, became
much interested in the following para
graph from the Scientific american:
professor Ingrum Bottomly, in inves,
tigating the power which snake has to
charm animals and birds, has discovered
that man possesses similar power over
snake, and, that he has, by boldly look
ing snake in the eye and blowing his
breath upon him, succeeded in charm
ing him until he was quite harmless"
Mr.. Hemphill is something OF an ex-
perimenting scientist, and after thinking
over the paragraph, decided to create a
sensation in the ncighborhood. Several
days afterward, at a log-church raising,
the men found large rattlesnake coiled
up under the end of log. Some one
was about to strike the snake with pole
when Hemphill exclaimed:
"Hold on, and I'll show you something
that will make you open your eyes. Wait,
l tell you. I'm going to charm him."
The man put down his pole and Hemp
hill stepped forward, got down on his
knees and began to lick out his tongue.
The snake paid no attention to him. He
poked his face down little closer and
blew his breath on the snake. The rep
tile WINGED at this, for Hemphill's breath
was known to be vigorous. He blew his
breath again, and the snake, after vainliy
looking fora place of refuge, ''hauled
off" and popped" Hcmphill between
the eyes. 1t is pretty well-established
fact that it is exceedingly annoying to
be bitten by a rattlesnake. Hemphill
yelled so loud that several mule colts in
a distant field lifted up their heads and
snortcd. The scientist was taken home
and placed on a diet o. whisky. The
last bulletin states that he was sufficient
conscious to keep up an active fumbling
for the jug.-Arkansaw 1raoeler.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
Caste.

The strife for rank and distinction in
social circles is as fierce in small villages
as in the large cities. Two young women
were discussing the claims of candidate
for the highest social honors in the circle
in which they belonged. One OF them
said:
"Have you heard about Maggie D-'s
rise in the world 2"
"oh, indeed I have !"
"Won't she give herself airs now Z"
"Of course she will; I don't suppose
she'll condescend to notice us common
girls now."
81 suppose not; she always did think
herself some"
"Yes, and now that she's got the place
of forclady over the girls in the new
pickle factory thcrell be no living in the
same town with her. "-Butalo Times.